This is Not a Half-Pipe

Dude, you call this a half-pipe? It’s, like, totally made of construction paper or something, and it’s not even big enough for my skateboard! I’m, like, a professional athlete, dude, I don’t have time for this!

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I can never get enough hedgehog in my day. It’s dusk over here, so I’m off to chuck out some mealworms and banana slices for our local gang. If they let me see the babies, I’ll send in pics. Cheers! Hedgehogs for everyone!

Hedgehogs have amazing long tongues as my previous hedgehogs used theirs to good effect. I miss having hedgehogs so much since my last one died a year ago. I have to be content in seeing all those adorable hedgies on CuteOverload. This skateboarding hedgie is quite the rascal, isn’t he? The “Look” and figuring out how he will do his back flip on his skateboard.

I had a hedgehog once who would chew up his food and spit it onto his quills. Someone told me once that it was a instinct leftover from when hedgies would eat poison dart frogs and then spit the poison onto their quills to pose a bigger threat to predators when they poked them. Unfortunately, with other kinds of food, that doesn’t work so well. It just made his quills all crusty :o).

@lucy’s mommeh; yes indeed, just outside Cambridge. We share an enormous garden and a horse paddock with neighbours, and get a fantastic array of wildlife. My office looks out over the garden, and I’m constantly distracted by pheasants or woodcocks or badgers wandering around. We also have a sparrow’s nest in the eaves right by the bedroom window…they’ve become my alarm clock. Unfortunately, at the moment, that means about 4.30. One gets used to it.